Bushwick DIY Collective, Unit J, Rocks Out on Moffat Street

The last thing you might expect to find on dark, potholed Moffat Street abutting Evergreen Cemetery is an art collective named Unit J. Nevertheless, its members have transformed the kind of warehouse ubiquitous in the neighborhood into a live/work space that captures Bushwick’s do-it-yourself aesthetic. 

One of the founding members and resident of Unit J, Dru Cutler, describes Bushwick as a place where “people don’t wait for permission to test out their ideas. They just do it. That’s very inspiring.”

Cutler started living in the Moffat Street building well before Unit J became an organized collective. He says, “I remember meeting my first roommate Eli [Bridges], with his giant head of curly hair, at a bonfire behind the graveyard. We knew we were rolling the dice on each other.”